12 Grand Challenges in Single-Cell Data Science

David Lähnemann*,1,2,3, Johannes Köster*,+,1,4, Ewa Szczurek*,5, Davis J. McCarthy*,6,7, Stephanie C. Hicks*,8, Mark D. Robinson*,9, Catalina A. Vallejos*,10,11, Niko Beerenwinkel*,12,13, Kieran R. Campbell*,15,16,17, Ahmed Mahfouz*,18,19, Luca Pinello*,20,21,22, Pavel Skums*,23, Alexandros Stamatakis*,24,25, Camille Stephan-Otto Attolini*,26, Samuel Aparicio16,27, Jasmijn Baaijens29, Marleen Balvert29,31, Buys de Barbanson32,33,34, Antonio Cappuccio35, Giacomo Corleone36, Bas E. Dutilh31,38, Maria Florescu32,33,34, Victor Guryev41, Rens Holmer42, Katharina Jahn12,13, Thamar Jessurun Lobo41, Emma M. Keizer45, Indu Khatri46, Szymon M. Kiełbasa47, Jan O. Korbel48, Alexey M. Kozlov24, Tzu-Hao Kuo3, Boudewijn P.F. Lelieveldt49,50, Ion I. Mandoiu51, John C. Marioni52,53,54, Tobias Marschall55,56, Felix Mölder1,59, Amir Niknejad60,61, Łukasz Rączkowski5, Marcel Reinders18,19, Jeroen de Ridder32,33, Antoine-Emmanuel Saliba62, Antonios Somarakis50, Oliver Stegle48,54,63, Fabian J. Theis67, Huan Yang68, Alex Zelikovsky69,70, Alice C. McHardy+,3, Benjamin J. Raphael+,71, Sohrab P. Shah+,72, and Alexander Schönhuth@,+,*,29,31

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